A couple of years ago, Volkswagen pretty much admitted what the rest of the world knew: the Beetle, once the people’s car, had become a bit of a girl’s car.
So it went to great lengths to make the new one more masculine, giving it a few sharper lines, making it much better to punt around, and ditching the vase for your gerbera.
Now it’s injected another dose of testosterone to create this: the Volkswagen Beetle R-Line.
So, has Volkswagen made a more brutish bug?